# Enhancing Innovation and Capabilities of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network; Approaches to Data Modernization

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/cdc-rfa-eh17-17020501supp21-enhancing-innovation-and-capabilities-of-the-environmental/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/331895

> Centers for Disease Control - NCEH offered grants of up to $300,000 (at least $100,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 15 awards worth $175,000 in total. Applications closed on June 21, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | CDC-RFA-EH17-17020501SUPP21 |
| Agency | Centers for Disease Control - NCEH |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | June 21, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | $300,000 |
| Award floor | $100,000 |
| Expected awards | 15 |
| Total funding | $175,000 |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.070 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

All eligible CDC-RFA-EH17-1702 recipients.

## What the grant funds

Environmental Public Health Tracking (Tracking) is the integrated surveillance of health, exposure, and hazard information and data from a variety of national, state, and local sources. The Tracking Network is unique in that it provides the United States with accurate and timely standardized data and supports ongoing efforts within the public health and environmental sectors to improve data collection, accessibility, and dissemination as well as analytic and response capacity. Data that were previously collected for different purposes and stored in separate systems are now available in a nationally standardized format allowing programs to begin bridging the gap between health and the environment. Having accurate and timely tracking data enables public health authorities to determine temporal and spatial trends in disease and potential environmental exposures, identify populations most affected, and develop and assess the environmental public health policies and interventions aimed at reducing or eliminating diseases associated with environmental factors. The availability of these types of data in a standardized network provide researchers, public health authorities, healthcare practitioners, and the public to have a better understanding about the possible associations between the environment and adverse health effects, and to assist them with decision making. The concept of using Tracking data and other program resources to inform public health action is explicit in the Tracking Program’s mission, with the ultimate goal of reducing the burden of environmentally related health conditions. Since 2005, one approach in monitoring Tracking Program performance is by gathering information on how the Tracking Program has been able to drive public health actions within funded jurisdictions. These public health actions include using Tracking data to: identify populations at risk; responding to outbreaks, clusters, and emerging threats; identify, reduce, and prevent environmental hazards; and informing policy makers, communities and other regarding potential environmental health risks. Since the end of 2015, over 340 public health actions have been documented by current state and local recipients.

## Questions people ask

### Is CDC-RFA-EH17-17020501SUPP21 still open?

No. It closed on June 21, 2021. A newer notice is open: PA-27-100, due dates in the notice, expires April 5, 2027.

### Who can apply for Enhancing Innovation and Capabilities of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network; Approaches to Data Modernization?

Centers for Disease Control - NCEH accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Enhancing Innovation and Capabilities of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network; Approaches to Data Modernization?

Closed June 21, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $300,000 each. About $175,000 in total across about 15 awards.

### Who has won Environmental Public Health and Emergency Response grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Minnesota Department of Health, Florida Department of Health. The program made 183 awards worth $213 million in that time.